[WSBAPT] Referral for Trust Litigation

[Diane Kiepe]

David,

You probably will find someone closer in location but in case you don't, I
do enjoy this type of work.



Diane Kiepe
Kiepe Estate and Probate, PLLC
diane at kiepelaw.com
200 N. Mullan Rd., Suite 203
Spokane Valley, WA  99206
509-808-2087
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On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 2:55 PM David Faber <david at faberfeinson.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am in need of a referral to handle some trust litigation. My client
> adopted a child who is a beneficiary of a trust. The trust's "professional"
> trustee has held the entire trust corpus (hundreds of thousands) in cash,
> failing to invest or seek any returns on the assets in what appears to me
> to be a clear breach of their fiduciary obligations under the prudent
> investor rule (by my calculations over the last seven years, the trustee
> could have more than doubled the value of the original trust estate simply
> by investing in an S&P tracking fund, for instance). The beneficiary (and
> potential client) is a young adult who is seeking (a) to remove and replace
> the trustee and (b) possibly sue for damages due to the current trustee's
> breach of fiduciary obligations. The client lives in Port Townsend.
>
> Self-referrals are great!
>
> Thank you!
>
> Best,
> David J. Faber
> Faber Feinson PLLC
> 800 Polk Street, Suite B
> Port Townsend, WA 98368
> (360) 379-4110
>
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